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1. Cosmology in myths and legends: Prehistory, Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greeks and Romans. 2. The influence of Islam and the rediscovery of cosmology in Europe: China, Japan, India, Persia, Medieval Europe. 3.The Renaissance and cosmology as seen from physics and methematics: Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Galileo, Kepler and Newton.

The Solar System and its exploration

4. Earth, its characteristics and history. 5. The beginning of space exploration. From V-2 to artificial satellites and human orbital travelling. History of United States' and URSS' space programs. 6. Earth from outer space. 7. The Moon. Exploration with unmanned and manned spaceships. The Apollo program. 8. The Sun, characteristics and its exploration. 9. Mercury and what we know about it via space probes. 10. Venus and its predominantly Soviet exploration. 11. Mars and its predominantly American exploration. 12. Jupiter and the probes that have studied it. 13. Saturn and its exploration via space probes. 14. Uranus and its exploration. 15. Neptune and its exploration 16. Pluto and the probe "New horizons". 17. Comets, asteroids, and the Kuiper belt.

In this course we will learn about the stories of the gods, the heroes and other characters that left their names written in the constellations and stars, as well as the works of literature, painting and sculpture that materialized and immortalized these stories.